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Walnut Hill Man Arrested For Threatening Family With Knife Following Funeral
March 16, 2010
A Walnut Hill man is being held in the Escambia County Jail, charged with an incident where he allegedly used a knife to threaten three members of his family after a funeral.
David Earl Fountain, 54, of Arthur Brown Road, Walnut Hill, is being held on $75,000 bond on a felony aggravated assault charge.
Escambia County deputies responded to a residence in the 6000 block of Arthur Brown Road in Walnut Hill Saturday night where family members said the incident occurred. Fountain’s wife, age 50, told deputies that she had returned home after a funeral and began to hug family members to console them. That’s when Fountain became angry, grabbed a pair of scissors and swung them at his wife, according to the arrest report. The wife’s son then grabbed Fountain in attempt to protect his mother. The trio began to wrestle before Fountain broke free and grabbed a knife from the kitchen, the report states.
The victim’s daughter escorted Fountain, 32, outside where he was still armed with the knife, deputies said. Fountain’s son said his father tried to stab him several times with the scissors, and another son, 36, said Fountain tried to stab him with the knife, according to Deputy Tod Day’s incident report.
Fountain had left the residence and traveled to Atmore before deputies arrived. Family members called Fountain and convinced him to return to Walnut Hill where he was arrested.
All of the victims refused medical treatment.
Fountain is due in court March 31.
Comments
9 Responses to “Walnut Hill Man Arrested For Threatening Family With Knife Following Funeral”
WOW WHO WOULD OF THOUGHT DAVID WOULD DO SUCH THING …BUT HEY YOU NEVER KNOWS WHAT A PERSON GOING THRU..THANK GOD NO ONE GOT HURT…MAY GOD BLESS HIM AND HIS FAMILY
No it is not more to the story this is the story over his wife giving her Uncle at the community center where we the family ate. He (David) got mad and when he left to go home he confronted the wife while she was in her closet and the grankids ran for help and the kids arrived to help defend their mom and David tried to attack her and the kids and they all jumped in to defend their mom. We thank God that we are all okay.
WOW! Who in their right mind would want to hurt their children and spouse? This is absolutely crazy… I think there is more to this story than is being said, for these actions…
Thank god everyone alright every family have problems so dont judge. GOD BLESS YOU!
REGARDING:
“This is someones life n which couldve turned out tragic.”
Which is why I carefully waited until it DIDN’T turn out tragic to touch on it.
Many things which COULD have killed us are funny in retrospect.
David remembering talking down two Angolan soldiers
with AK47s pointed at me, actually,
that was funny THEN too
remember this is walnut hill everthing over ther is nutty……
Have respect. The comment made by David was not funny. This is someones life n which couldve turned out tragic.
we did good at our last family funeral
nobody thought to pull a knife
David wondering why
I just don’t know. Maybe he needed a hug. Wack-O when you start trying to stab your family. Surely he was steamed over something but it’s still no excuse to harm your family. If your that mad just leave and cool off.